Re:Oh no! Region locked DVD Linux distros!
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Region locks on DVD only come from the way a DVD MPEG2 movie (VOB files) is encoded and encrypted onto a disc. Data cannot be locked down to a specific region as it is simply put on the DVD discs and not encrypted like the DVD movie files.
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Re:Well now that everyone's hopped on the bandwago
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As I said, the only difference in the DRIVES is the laser. The DVD discs are what have the extra storage capacity. Just like the hard drive platters have the extra capacity and not the hard drive heads.
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Re:Well now that everyone's hopped on the bandwago
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DVD drives are just seen as a standard ATAPI Disc drive to the computer. The only difference between DVD drives and CD drives are the lasers used to read the data off the disk.
This will definitly be nice seeing that SuSE has been growing by one CD since 6.0 (excluding the live filesystem cd). Plus it will help with remote installation of packages via Yast since no disc swapping will be necessary. Now to just find a cheap 4x or so DVD drive.
As far as all the attention taking time away from the programmers, thats something that needs to be delt with by the programmers. If they feel it inteferrs with their work, then they can refuse the interviews. If they want to get things done well, they need to manage their time well.
With support e-mails bogging programmers down, they need to organize things like listserv help or newsgroup help. I recently subscribed to a listserv for the 3Com network driver to try to figure out a problem with the driver and a newer card that 3Com released. I chose this over going to the programmer first.
The Windows refund day proves that media attention can be bad. I recently rewatched my MPEG copies of the news stories on that, and realised that the person dressed up as someone from Star Wars just completly took any seriousness that the protest had. If Linux people want good media attention, they need to start acting like professionals and not people at Star Trek conventions.
Hmm, Apple seems to be slipping as of late. This is what internal discussion and one press release is for. Not 3 different announcements taking something back.
1394's roadmap shows that in a few years it will be faster then AGP 2x busses.
Intel hates 1394 because unlike USB, 1394 does not require a computer as a host. 1394 can be a universal connector between everything in your home. Simply plug your 1394 wire between your Digital VCR, TV, and Amp, and enjoy the lack of clutter behind your TV. Then connect the Digital VCR to your laptop, and enjoy what you recorded on a flight. The only possible part Intel would have is the laptop if it used an Intel CPU.
Personally, I hope 1394 is adopted more. It's now a requirement for any new equipment I buy. My new laptop from Gateway has a 1394 port, and I will be ordering a Sony 1394 CD/RW drive soon. After that, I will be looking into a 1394 HDTV, and more.
Glaze 3D has been a vaporware chipset for way to long for me to ever believe it will come out. My friend tried to stop me from buying the Voodoo2 the day it came out because this super powerful Glaze 3D card was comming out soon that was slightly more powerful then Voodoo2 SLI. And now a few years later, nothing has yet to be seen from the company making Glaze 3D. I'll buy what meets my needs when I need to upgrade and not hold out for a rumored chip.
I have looked around for a few years and have yet to come across an AT or PS/2 compatible keyboard with the DVORAK layout.
Personally, I think as long as you type well now on a QWERTY keyboard, a DVORAK keyboard should provide a bit of difficulty to start out. But once you are used to it, then switching back and forth should be a minor change when typing. The main problem I see though is not being able to use the DVORAK layout on a laptop easially. I use my laptop more then I use a desktop computer anymore, and I don't feel like pulling of all the keys, rearranging them, then figuring out a way to remap the keys under Windows and Linux.
It's already started. Hundreds of Slashdot readers are already becomming even more parnoid when there is no threat. The PIII's ID can be disabled, and someone will disable IBM's if they don't allow it as an option. Or you can simply not buy an IBM machine with this feature. Or you can wake up and realise that until something like this is standardized for all computers, noone will really care. I highly doubt every web site and other servers are going to start tracking PIII ID's anytime soon. Why? Because probably 10% or so of the computers out there on the internet may have a PIII. And a fraction of those may have the ID on. So why go to all the trouble to try to track a nonstandard ID? So all those parnoid readers prepairing to boycott IBM just might want to sit back down.
I had a complete BBS on my HP48. You could login via IR or a modem via the serial port, and read mail and such. I was even working on a DOORS interface for it to work with my 2 player battleship game I made.
I would agree that the Nomad is rather nice, and I'd like to find one to be able to play Genesis games. But theres a few problems with it that I found on my recent vacation in comparison to my new Color Game Boy. The Nomad is nice for it's screen being backlit, but I had a very hard time seeing things playing Sonic in the daylight on the Nomad. At night it was fine. The Color Gameboy was played in the day, and the Nomad at night.
Also, the Nomad needs lots of batteries and the battery pack. The unit is heavy, and it's really big. It's just like the Palm vs CE devices. In my book, size and battery life are at the top of my list, not features. And seeing how well Nintendo has done in the past, plus the fact that the new system will be backwards compatible, I can't wait for it's launch day.
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Why would a game now threaten Warcraft III?
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Warcraft III is slated for release late 2000. How would a game out now affect the sales of a game that far off? And knowing Blizzard, it will really be out mid 2001.
And on the whole Linux port thing... The game is so far off that in that time Linux will either make a bigger splash warranting almost all software to exist for Linux, or Linux will be a flop on consumer machines, and the Linux port won't exist.
Only time will tell on everything with this game. And who knows, it looks good, so that means it could be scrapped like Warcraft Adventures was. (Personally, the market needs more adventure games, and any decent one would have sold well, but I guess Blizzard had different ideas)
I've had microwave based internet for a little over a year here in Colorado Springs. http://www.wantweb.net has the info on this service, and they have places in a few areas. They finally got the license for two way and should have it up here soon. They also offer cable TV and will offer phone service once two way is in place. Reliability is ok, and the best speed I have obtained off it is 180k/s. Average tends to fall around 60-80k/s. Latency is about 50-80 ms below average dial-up, due to the 33.6 modem return. Overall in an area with latecomming ASDL and cable modem access, it's not bad.
Anandtech is made similar to the Slashdot team where many people who support the site support the effort. Also the hardware reviewers will rin the clients on the computers when they are not benchmarking something. But the "huge lan - more then all AnandTech" should have been "more computers then all of anandTech's team has"
The more centralized these type of sites become, the easer it will be for everyone to get to the information like this. Thats one nice thing about say OS/2. I can go to IBM's site to find hardware that works with OS/2, but with Linux, I may have to check 4 sites to get what I need.
$35-$45 DVD's? Now thats overpriced. All the stores here have DVD's for $10-$30, with only a few special ones going for more. New CD's at the same stores are typicially $10-$15. (The stores I am thinking of are Media Play, Best Buy, and the DVD's at CompUSA)
The K7 is a home user and server chip. Basicially the home user chip will have the lowest amount of cache and speed of the cache. The server chips will have a few megs of cache at faster speeds. Similar to Intel's strategy witht he Xeon and PII.
Hmmm, Intel and AMD have both showed off 1GHz systems, but if you look closly they are both existing chips (In AMD's case an almost final K7, err Athlon or whatever) with massive cooling systems. Alpha will have a 1GHz chip that dosen't require freon or liquid nitrogen or things like that. Running, yes. For sale soon for the general public without a refrigerator, no.
Wrong again. The K7 uses Slot A. Slot A will be compatible with some Alpha chips too, but Slot B is the high end Alpha slot. Just like Intel's Slot 1 and Slot 2. And on Viper's comment, Slot A is nowhere the same as Slot 1. Probably will be sized differently, and keyed differently, and differen number of pins and everything.
Probably the first thing to go check is the assorted howto's about setting this up. Howto.linuxberg.com is a good place to go. As far as specific hardware, look for network cards with the boot rom, or have a floppy drive and one disk to get things going on boot.
One thing that I have done now that I am home is to add a new AvantGo.com channel to the Linux Security How-To. I set it to sync once a week so that way it dosen't waste time on a document that probably won't update that frequently. I will consider making a Doc file as Memoware proved to be useless except a better VI reference. And laser printers beware, I will be printing out many things here soon to hilight and use for the checklist, as I am currently setting up some new servers with SuSE 6.1.
I have in my Palm V a basic checklist covering security measures for NT (rename admin, etc...), and many good ideas for Linux have been discussed. Is there a basic checklist covering Linux out there suitable for my Palm Pilot?
Bye bye SGI? The makers of the graphics system in the N64 left SGI, but yet again are making the system for the N2000... The CPU isn't as central as it is in a PC. Remember the Amiga archetecture? Thats what consoles are like. And for those who don't remember, Amigas used a few processors on the mainboard, all with specific tasks like graphics.
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Region locks on DVD only come from the way a DVD MPEG2 movie (VOB files) is encoded and encrypted onto a disc. Data cannot be locked down to a specific region as it is simply put on the DVD discs and not encrypted like the DVD movie files.
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As I said, the only difference in the DRIVES is the laser. The DVD discs are what have the extra storage capacity. Just like the hard drive platters have the extra capacity and not the hard drive heads.
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DVD drives are just seen as a standard ATAPI Disc drive to the computer. The only difference between DVD drives and CD drives are the lasers used to read the data off the disk.
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This will definitly be nice seeing that SuSE has been growing by one CD since 6.0 (excluding the live filesystem cd). Plus it will help with remote installation of packages via Yast since no disc swapping will be necessary. Now to just find a cheap 4x or so DVD drive.
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As far as all the attention taking time away from the programmers, thats something that needs to be delt with by the programmers. If they feel it inteferrs with their work, then they can refuse the interviews. If they want to get things done well, they need to manage their time well.
With support e-mails bogging programmers down, they need to organize things like listserv help or newsgroup help. I recently subscribed to a listserv for the 3Com network driver to try to figure out a problem with the driver and a newer card that 3Com released. I chose this over going to the programmer first.
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The Windows refund day proves that media attention can be bad. I recently rewatched my MPEG copies of the news stories on that, and realised that the person dressed up as someone from Star Wars just completly took any seriousness that the protest had. If Linux people want good media attention, they need to start acting like professionals and not people at Star Trek conventions.
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Hmm, Apple seems to be slipping as of late. This is what internal discussion and one press release is for. Not 3 different announcements taking something back.
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1394's roadmap shows that in a few years it will be faster then AGP 2x busses.
Intel hates 1394 because unlike USB, 1394 does not require a computer as a host. 1394 can be a universal connector between everything in your home. Simply plug your 1394 wire between your Digital VCR, TV, and Amp, and enjoy the lack of clutter behind your TV. Then connect the Digital VCR to your laptop, and enjoy what you recorded on a flight. The only possible part Intel would have is the laptop if it used an Intel CPU.
Personally, I hope 1394 is adopted more. It's now a requirement for any new equipment I buy. My new laptop from Gateway has a 1394 port, and I will be ordering a Sony 1394 CD/RW drive soon. After that, I will be looking into a 1394 HDTV, and more.
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Glaze 3D has been a vaporware chipset for way to long for me to ever believe it will come out. My friend tried to stop me from buying the Voodoo2 the day it came out because this super powerful Glaze 3D card was comming out soon that was slightly more powerful then Voodoo2 SLI. And now a few years later, nothing has yet to be seen from the company making Glaze 3D. I'll buy what meets my needs when I need to upgrade and not hold out for a rumored chip.
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I have looked around for a few years and have yet to come across an AT or PS/2 compatible keyboard with the DVORAK layout.
Personally, I think as long as you type well now on a QWERTY keyboard, a DVORAK keyboard should provide a bit of difficulty to start out. But once you are used to it, then switching back and forth should be a minor change when typing. The main problem I see though is not being able to use the DVORAK layout on a laptop easially. I use my laptop more then I use a desktop computer anymore, and I don't feel like pulling of all the keys, rearranging them, then figuring out a way to remap the keys under Windows and Linux.
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It's already started. Hundreds of Slashdot readers are already becomming even more parnoid when there is no threat. The PIII's ID can be disabled, and someone will disable IBM's if they don't allow it as an option. Or you can simply not buy an IBM machine with this feature. Or you can wake up and realise that until something like this is standardized for all computers, noone will really care. I highly doubt every web site and other servers are going to start tracking PIII ID's anytime soon. Why? Because probably 10% or so of the computers out there on the internet may have a PIII. And a fraction of those may have the ID on. So why go to all the trouble to try to track a nonstandard ID? So all those parnoid readers prepairing to boycott IBM just might want to sit back down.
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I had a complete BBS on my HP48. You could login via IR or a modem via the serial port, and read mail and such. I was even working on a DOORS interface for it to work with my 2 player battleship game I made.
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I would agree that the Nomad is rather nice, and I'd like to find one to be able to play Genesis games. But theres a few problems with it that I found on my recent vacation in comparison to my new Color Game Boy. The Nomad is nice for it's screen being backlit, but I had a very hard time seeing things playing Sonic in the daylight on the Nomad. At night it was fine. The Color Gameboy was played in the day, and the Nomad at night.
Also, the Nomad needs lots of batteries and the battery pack. The unit is heavy, and it's really big. It's just like the Palm vs CE devices. In my book, size and battery life are at the top of my list, not features. And seeing how well Nintendo has done in the past, plus the fact that the new system will be backwards compatible, I can't wait for it's launch day.
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Warcraft III is slated for release late 2000. How would a game out now affect the sales of a game that far off? And knowing Blizzard, it will really be out mid 2001.
And on the whole Linux port thing... The game is so far off that in that time Linux will either make a bigger splash warranting almost all software to exist for Linux, or Linux will be a flop on consumer machines, and the Linux port won't exist.
Only time will tell on everything with this game. And who knows, it looks good, so that means it could be scrapped like Warcraft Adventures was. (Personally, the market needs more adventure games, and any decent one would have sold well, but I guess Blizzard had different ideas)
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I've had microwave based internet for a little over a year here in Colorado Springs. http://www.wantweb.net has the info on this service, and they have places in a few areas. They finally got the license for two way and should have it up here soon. They also offer cable TV and will offer phone service once two way is in place. Reliability is ok, and the best speed I have obtained off it is 180k/s. Average tends to fall around 60-80k/s. Latency is about 50-80 ms below average dial-up, due to the 33.6 modem return. Overall in an area with latecomming ASDL and cable modem access, it's not bad.
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Anandtech is made similar to the Slashdot team where many people who support the site support the effort. Also the hardware reviewers will rin the clients on the computers when they are not benchmarking something. But the "huge lan - more then all AnandTech" should have been "more computers then all of anandTech's team has"
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The more centralized these type of sites become, the easer it will be for everyone to get to the information like this. Thats one nice thing about say OS/2. I can go to IBM's site to find hardware that works with OS/2, but with Linux, I may have to check 4 sites to get what I need.
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$35-$45 DVD's? Now thats overpriced. All the stores here have DVD's for $10-$30, with only a few special ones going for more. New CD's at the same stores are typicially $10-$15. (The stores I am thinking of are Media Play, Best Buy, and the DVD's at CompUSA)
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The K7 is a home user and server chip. Basicially the home user chip will have the lowest amount of cache and speed of the cache. The server chips will have a few megs of cache at faster speeds. Similar to Intel's strategy witht he Xeon and PII.
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"they have 1 GHz chips running"
Hmmm, Intel and AMD have both showed off 1GHz systems, but if you look closly they are both existing chips (In AMD's case an almost final K7, err Athlon or whatever) with massive cooling systems. Alpha will have a 1GHz chip that dosen't require freon or liquid nitrogen or things like that. Running, yes. For sale soon for the general public without a refrigerator, no.
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Wrong again. The K7 uses Slot A. Slot A will be compatible with some Alpha chips too, but Slot B is the high end Alpha slot. Just like Intel's Slot 1 and Slot 2. And on Viper's comment, Slot A is nowhere the same as Slot 1. Probably will be sized differently, and keyed differently, and differen number of pins and everything.
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Probably the first thing to go check is the assorted howto's about setting this up. Howto.linuxberg.com is a good place to go. As far as specific hardware, look for network cards with the boot rom, or have a floppy drive and one disk to get things going on boot.
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One thing that I have done now that I am home is to add a new AvantGo.com channel to the Linux Security How-To. I set it to sync once a week so that way it dosen't waste time on a document that probably won't update that frequently. I will consider making a Doc file as Memoware proved to be useless except a better VI reference. And laser printers beware, I will be printing out many things here soon to hilight and use for the checklist, as I am currently setting up some new servers with SuSE 6.1.
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I have in my Palm V a basic checklist covering security measures for NT (rename admin, etc...), and many good ideas for Linux have been discussed. Is there a basic checklist covering Linux out there suitable for my Palm Pilot?
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Bye bye SGI? The makers of the graphics system in the N64 left SGI, but yet again are making the system for the N2000... The CPU isn't as central as it is in a PC. Remember the Amiga archetecture? Thats what consoles are like. And for those who don't remember, Amigas used a few processors on the mainboard, all with specific tasks like graphics.
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